Good for What Ails You: Music of the Medicine Shows 1926-1937

Compilation by Various Artists

Released 4 October 2005

Tracklist

  • CD 1
  • 1
    The Spasm
    Daddy Stovepipe & Mississippi Sarah
    2:52
  • 2
    Tanner's Boarding House
    Gid Tanner & Riley Puckett
    3:05
  • 3
    Don't Think I'm Santa Claus
    Lil McClintock
    3:05
  • 4
    Hokum Blues
    Dallas String Band with Coley Jones
    3:14
  • 5
    Jimbo Jambo Land
    Shorty Godwin
    2:57
  • 6
    Gonna Swing on the Golden Gate
    Fiddlin’ John Carson and His Virginia Reelers
    2:57
  • 7
    Papa's 'Bout to Get Mad
    Pink Anderson & Simmie Dooley
    2:59
  • 8
    The Man Who Wrote Home Sweet Home Never Was a Married Man
    Charlie Parker & Mack Woolbright
    3:14
  • 9
    Bye, Bye, Policeman
    Jim Jackson
    3:03
  • 10
    The Bald-Headed End of a Broom
    Walter Smith
    2:56
  • 11
    Bow Wow Blues
    The Allen Brothers
    3:21
    5.0 ★
  • 12
    Beans
    Beans Hambone and El Morrow
    2:53
  • 13
    A Chicken Can Waltz the Gravy Around
    Stovepipe No. 1 & David Crockett
    3:08
  • 14
    Tell It to Me
    Grant Brothers & Their Music
    2:56
  • 15
    Ain't No Use Working So Hard
    Carolina Tar Heels
    3:08
  • 16
    Mama Keep Your Yes Ma'am Clean
    Walter Cole
    2:47
  • 17
    C-H-I-C-K-E-N Spells Chicken
    Kirk McGee & Blythe Poteet
    2:54
  • 18
    My Money Never Runs Out
    Banjo Joe
    2:53
  • 19
    Railroadin' Some
    Henry Thomas
    3:19
    5.0 ★
  • 20
    Traveling Man
    Prince Albert Hunt’s Texas Ramblers
    2:55
  • 21
    G. Burns Is Gonna Rise Again
    Johnson-Nelson-Porkchop
    3:00
  • 22
    Baby All Night Long
    Blue Ridge Mountain Entertainers
    2:47
  • 23
    Born in Hard Luck
    Chris Bouchillon
    3:19
  • 24
    He's in the Jailhouse Now
    Memphis Sheiks
    3:11
  • CD 2
  • 1
    Gonna Tip Out Tonight
    Pink Anderson & Simmie Dooley
    3:10
  • 2
    Chevrolet Car
    Sam McGee
    3:10
  • 3
    It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo'
    Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers
    2:58
  • 4
    Bring It With You When You Come
    Cannon’s Jug Stompers
    2:45
  • 5
    Atlanta Strut
    Blind Sammie
    3:11
    5.0 ★
  • 6
    Go Along Mule
    Uncle Dave Macon & His Fruit Jar Drinkers
    3:08
  • 7
    Casey Bill
    Earl McDonald’s Original Louisville Jug Band
    2:48
  • 8
    I Got Mine
    Frank Stokes
    3:06
  • 9
    Hannah
    Chris Bouchillon
    2:57
  • 10
    Adam & Eve in the Garden
    Bogus Ben Covington
    2:43
  • 11
    Mysterious Coon
    Alec Johnson
    3:16
  • 12
    Her Name Was Hula Lou
    Carolina Tar Heels
    3:00
  • 13
    Reno Blues
    Three Tobacco Tags
    2:39
  • 14
    Scoodle Um Skoo
    Papa Charlie Jackson
    3:17
  • 15
    Stackalee
    Frank Hutchison
    3:06
  • 16
    The Cat's Got the Measles, the Dog's Got the Whooping Cough
    Walter Smith
    3:00
  • 17
    Shout You Cats
    Hezekiah Jenkins
    3:09
  • 18
    Nobody's Business If I Do
    Tommie Bradley
    2:59
  • 19
    Sweet Sixteen
    Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers
    2:53
  • 20
    Ticklish Reuben
    Charlie Parker & Mack Woolbright
    2:40
  • 21
    I Heard the Voice of a Porkchop
    Jim Jackson
    2:52
  • 22
    Shine
    Dallas String Band with Coley Jones
    3:01
  • 23
    The Gypsy
    Emmett Miller & His Georgia Crackers
    3:21
  • 24
    Kiss Me Cindy
    J.E. Mainer’s Mountaineers
    2:05

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